Summary Box: Investors look for windfall in Box

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BIG BET: A group of investors and financiers are pouring $48 million into Box.net, which provides online storage lockers for personal and corporate information. Two of the investors, venture capital firms Meritech Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, also have invested in Facebook.

FAMILIAR STORY: Box's CEO, Aaron Levie, is a 26-year-old college dropout running an Internet company in Palo Alto, Calif., just like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

BIG DIFFERENCES: Facebook already has established itself as one of the Web's most popular hangouts with more than 500 million users. Box.net has about 5 million users. Unlike Zuckerberg, Levie isn't a billionaire.